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The ninth formula of light

The mushroom luciferin discovered by Russian scientists, the ninth in the world list, will find its application in bioimaging and other areas of applied bioluminescence.

13.07.2015
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Coronary artery tomography predicts near death

The severity of calcification assessed by computed tomography – the deposition of insoluble calcium compounds – in the walls of the coronary arteries makes it possible to predict mortality from any cause with high accuracy over the next 15 years.

10.07.2015
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Limber Bionic Arm Prosthesis

The greatest advantage of this bionic hand is in the price. Incredibly, unlike other expensive myoelectric hands that use expensive computer systems, handiii uses a smartphone.

08.07.2015
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Genomics – astronomically big big data

Youtube, Twitter and other rapidly growing segments of the Internet have turned out to be dwarfs compared to genomic data banks, whose astronomical growth rates can cause a lot of problems with data storage

08.07.2015
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Repair of "hidden" breaks in the DNA chain

The opportunity to defeat or even prevent a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, was found by Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues who discovered a new mechanism for repairing DNA.

06.07.2015
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From politics to evidence-based medicine

In the debate between Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Navalny, a dispute arose again about the effectiveness of kagocel, one of the most popular Russian medicines for flu and colds.

02.07.2015
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Take care of your great-grandchildren!

For the viability of a descendant, it is important at what age his father gave birth to him, his father's grandfather, and grandfather's great–grandfather. Perhaps this effect has a genetic nature: fitness decreases due to the accumulation of mutations over several generations.

29.06.2015
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"Robot avatar" for paraplegics

Scientists from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne presented the result of their long-term project to create a remotely controlled mobile robot, which can be commanded using the "power of thought".

26.06.2015
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Advanced heart-on-a-chip

The new device will allow you to reproduce a more accurate model of the processes occurring in the human body. The authors do not plan to commercialize the technology they have developed and will make it available to all interested parties in the near future.

25.06.2015
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Absolutely safe sex

The idea of British schoolchildren – condoms that can change their color depending on which sexually transmitted infection they had to deal with – is already being dealt with by a British company that produces contraceptives.

25.06.2015
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Solar storms hit joints and blood vessels

Scientists have found that there is a statistically significant relationship between the spread of rheumatoid arthritis, giant cell arteritis and cycles of solar activity.

23.06.2015
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The age of parents and the risk of autism in children

The results of the largest study showed that a large age difference between parents increases the risk of developing autism in children, and confirmed the fact that the older the parents, the higher the risk of having a child with autism.

19.06.2015
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On the way to telepathy

Further development of the ‘Brain-to-Text’ technology can be the first step towards creating systems of mental control of computers and other equipment, new technologies of communication between people and much more.

19.06.2015
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The Mystery of Prions

Researchers face a very difficult task, which will not only help to find a cure for serious diseases, but also, perhaps, help to discover the secret of longevity. To do this, you need only one thing – to understand prions.

18.06.2015
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Brain implant against parkinsonism and tremor

The FDA has approved the clinical use of the Brio Neurostimulation System, an implant for stimulating deep brain tissues that relieves the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and idiopathic tremor.

17.06.2015
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The prosthetic arm feels the temperature

If the microcontroller built into the prosthesis believes that the object is too hot, then it unclenches its fingers, preventing it from taking the object, and shocks the carrier of the bionic hand.

11.06.2015
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Frozen ovary in childhood allowed to give birth to a child

For the first time, doctors achieved the birth of a healthy child in a patient whose reproductive function was restored by transplanting the tissue of her own ovary, removed and cryopreserved in childhood.

11.06.2015
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Blood Type Affects Brain Health

People with "zero" (I) blood type have more gray matter in the posterior part of the cerebellum, as well as in the temporal and limbic lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, which makes them more protected from Alzheimer's disease.

10.06.2015
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Unique transplantation

American doctors performed the world's first successful operation to transplant a part of the skull together with the skin.

10.06.2015